The Parlor Girl's Guide, Paperback/Steve McCondichie

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Description A hard-edged country girl enlists the living and the dead to guide herpast family tragedy and forge her escape from a secluded Southern brothel. After her father's murder and mother's abandonment, Molly Lingo is forced to work for a merciless landowner in a rural Alabama hunting lodge that doubles as an exclusive whorehouse. Molly, the feisty teenage daughter of a hand-to-mouth tobacco farmer, employs a mysterious specter and a troubled gambler, "Cotton" Arnold, to assist her in breaking away from the unrelenting grip of the sharecropper culture. Set at the beginning of the Jazz Age's promis-ing sweep across America, Molly's story depicts both the shocking brutality of the landlord class and a young woman's determination not to be treated as a second-class citizen. This energetic historical fiction offers supernatural thrills and the poignant transformation of a metaphysical coming-of-age tale. Our Southern Fried Guarantee If you wouldn't enthusiastically recommend one of our books with a 4- or 5-star rating to a friend, then the next story is on us. We believe that much in the stories we're telling. Simply email us at pr@sfkmultimedia. com.